Shirt-collar.



No. 690,307. Patented- Dec. 3|, mm. 6. A. MAPES & N. R. MINOR.

SHIRT COLLAR.

(Application filed Mar. 20, 1901. Renewed Dec. 7, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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CHARLES A. MAPES AND NEWBURY R. MINOR,"OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,307, dated December31, 1901. Application filed March 20, 1901. Renewed December 7,1901.Serial No. 85,086. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Beit known that we,CHARLEs A. MAPEs and NEWBURY R. MINOR, citizens ofthe United States, and residents of the city of New York,

5 borough of Manhattan,in the count yand State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Shirt-Collars, of which thefollowingis afull,clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to attachable shirtcollars of the overfolding orturn-down style, and has for its object to provide novel and simpledetails of construction for a collar of the indicated style which serveto retain the necktie in place at a desired point on the collar andfacilitate its location thereon before or after the collar has beenremovably secured upon the neckband of the shirt.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combinations ofparts, as will be hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view,partly broken away,of a collar having ourinvention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is atransverse sectional view on theline 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is aside view in part of the inner ply of thecollar, a perspective view of a feature of the invention thereon, and aportion of a necktie engaged by the novel detail of construction; andFig. 4 is a rear view of the middle portion of the provement in placethereon.

Ordinarily it is quite inconvenient to place and retain a necktie on aturn down shirtcollar before it is secured upon the neckband of theshirt, and also to hold a narrow necktie at a desired point, either highor low, upon the collar.

The improvement hereinafter described affords a verysimple,practical,and inexpensive means of placing and detachablyretaining the band portion of any style of necktie upon a turn-downcollar between its inner and outer folds and either near the lower edgeof the inner ply of the collar or at a suitable point above said edge,as may be desired.

In the drawings,which show an embodiment inner ply of the collar and adetail of the imof our invention'with a turn-down collar of conventionalshape, 5 indicates the inner ply of such a collar, and 6 the outer foldthereof, integral with the inner ply and turned down therefrom, as shownat a in Figs. 1 and 2.

In the preferred construction two similar necktie-keepers are providedfor the collar, each comprising an elongated strip 7 of fibrous fabric,which may with advantage be material like that used in the manufactureof the collar. The strips 7 are each formed by lapfolding the cloth, soas to give them a suitable thickness, and each strip should havesufficient length to afford material for two spaced hooks, constructedas follows: To render the same substantial, the material of each strip 7may have its folds secured together by stitching the same along theedges or by waterproof cement, as may be preferred.

At a proper distance from one end of each strip 7 the material thereofis folded upon itself, so as to provide a hook-like keeper 8, and eachstrip so folded is located upon the outer side of the inner ply of thecollar a suitable distance from a respective end of the collarand heldthereon by the following-described means: The strips 7 are respectivelypositioned upright upon the collar-ply 5, so that the free ends of thekeeper-hooks 8 project upwardly, a d each of said keeper-hooksis securednear its old upon the collar-ply, near the lower edge thereof, bycross-stitching, as shown at b in Figs. 1 and 3. Another row ofstitching c is formed across each strip 7 at a suitable distancefroinithe upper end thereof, and as the body of thestrip is loose fromthe collar-ply above said row of stitching it will be seen that an upperkeeper-hook 9 is thus provided on each strip 7, properly spaced from thebend of thelower hook 8.

\Vhen the collar having the improvement is laundried,the keeper-stripswill be stifiened by the starch and ironing, the latter operationserving to flatten the strips against the inner. ply 5 of the collar.When the collar is to be worn, the necktie A, if it is to be supportednear the lower edge of the collar-ply 5, is passed around the collarbetween the ply 5 and depending portion 6 and then engaged with thelower keeper-hooks 8, the ends of the necktie being disposed at thefront of two hooked strips 7, relativelypositioned, as-

indicated in Fig. 1.

It will be seen that a necktie of any preferred style may be held inposition, either high or low, on the collar by the improved means andthe collar be readily secured upon the shirt-band without displacing thenecktie.

In Fig. 4, which represents the middle portion of the inner ply 5 of aturn-down collar, a single keeper-strip 7, having two spaced hooks Sand9, is shown as secured at the longitndinal center of the collar-ply 5,this single keeperstrip affording support for the necktie at the rear ofthe collar and may be employed alone, dispensing withthe keeperhooks atthe front of the collar or be used in conjunction therewith, as may bepreferred.

Having thus fully described our invention, We claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. Anecktie-supportforashirt-collar,co1nprising a strip of fabric secured upon the band ofthe collar upright from its lower edge, said 30 strip being once foldedand then stitched at two points, whereby two hook-like supports for anecktie are adorded one above the other.

2. A necktie-support for turn-down collars, comprising a thickened stripof fibrous fabric, folded and secured upright on the outer side of theinner ply of the collar, so as to provide two spaced hooks thereon forengagement with a necktie.

3. A necktie-support for turn-down collars, comprising two thickenedstrips of fibrous fabric, each secured upon the outer side of the innerply of the collar, so as to extend upright thereon near a respective endof said ply, each strip being lap-folded and secured so asto provide twospaced hooks for engagement with a necktie.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\Vitnesses:

RAYMOND H. DOREMUS, ROBERT J. MINER.

